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Sunday July 4, 1971
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This Day In 1970's History: Sunday July 4, 1971
  • In Buenos Aires, Argentina, Braniff airliner hijacker Robert Lee Jackson surrendered to police. $15,000 of the $100,000 ransom which was paid to Jackson for releasing the passengers in Monterrey, Mexico, is missing. [CBS]

  • The wreckage of a Japanese airliner was found near Hakodate, Japan; all 68 passengers were killed in the crash. [CBS]

  • Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger is meeting with South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu, reportedly to discuss the new North Vietnamese peace proposal. [CBS]

  • U.S. planes bombed enemy positions near the DMZ in South Vietnam. [CBS]

  • Col. Anthony Herbert has accused General John Barnes and Col. Ross Franklin of covering up war crimes that were committed in Vietnam. Because of his failure to be promoted the last two times he was eligible, Army regulations require Herbert to resign by March, 1972. Herbert says that the only bad comments on his efficiency reports were written by Barnes and Franklin; he believes he is being forced to retire as a warning to other officers not to reveal war crimes, and he also believes that the Army wants the charges against Barnes and Franklin to be dropped. The Pentagon said that the cases against Barnes and Franklin will not be affected by Herbert's retirement. [CBS]
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